What Blake deemed to be a hellish place was actually not that bad. After the horrendous first dinner and the introduction from the alpha to the pack members, which went out of Dawn's wildest imaginations, he granted her her wish to keep Kynes and Pyllo's lives with the warning that if they acted out again, there would be no mercy.
Zenith showed them that he only spared the two maids because Dawn asked him, or else, they would meet the same fate as Fern.
Dawn was actually surprised because he relented. She thought it would be a futile attempt. But, she was happy, not because she could save these two girls, but because she was being heard.
It was a small thing, but it meant so much to her.
This morning, because she had a hard time sleeping, as the gurgling sound that came from Fern kept echoing in her mind, she woke up late, yet Kynes and Pyllo didn't wake her up and Dawn immediately knew the reason for it.